AFMC Command News

  • Team efforts on detect and avoid systems lead to achievement award

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – A team led by the Communication, Navigation and Surveillance/Air Traffic Management Center of Excellence here was honored Oct. 22 for their ground-breaking success with ground-based detect and avoid systems for remotely piloted aircraft.During its annual awards

  • Tinker’s big DROP from first to fourth in energy consumption

    After two years of cost-effective modernization of its energy infrastructure, Tinker Air Force Base dropped from first to fourth place in Air Force energy consumption.  It’s been almost four years since Tinker began looking at ways to reduce its status as the highest energy consuming installation in

  • Tinker’s Cuban Missile Crisis connection

    It was on Oct. 16, 1962, that photographs were revealed to the administration of President John F. Kennedy that the Soviet Union was constructing sites for long- and short-range nuclear missiles in Cuba.This revelation sparked what would become known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and represented some

  • AFMC commander, civic leaders visit Hill AFB

    Air Force Materiel Command's commander, Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr., and 17 community leaders from around the country visited Hill Air Force Base Oct. 21-22, touring facilities and learning more about impactful missions here.

  • AFMC commander, civic leaders visit Hill AFB

    Air Force Materiel Command's commander, Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr., and 17 community leaders from around the country visited Hill Air Force Base Oct. 21-22, touring facilities and learning more about impactful missions here.

  • Readiness Challenge returns to reinvigorate mindsets

    TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- After almost two decades, the civil engineering-focused Readiness Challenge returned Oct. 14-17 in the form of a beta test.The test, held at Silver Flag Exercise Site, Tyndall AFB, Florida, was designed “to reinvigorate the Readiness Challenge piece, instill

  • Research analyst designs program to manage traffic flow at Wright-Patt

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Starting the day off with traffic delays and long lines on the way to work is never fun, but can sometimes be part of the daily commute.Sarah Lomax, an operations research analyst with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Operations Research Division,

  • Laws allowing establishment of AEDC turn 70

    It was 70 years ago this month that President Harry S. Truman signed legislation that paved the way for the establishment of Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC).On Oct. 27 and 28, 1949, Truman signed the Unitary Wind Tunnel Plan Act and the Air Engineering Development Center Act of 1949.

  • AFLCMC Pumpkin Chuck launches its annual event

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s 15th Annual Pumpkin Chuck will be held Oct. 25 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.  Open to the public, competitors and spectators can enter through the Spinning Road entrance,